William M. Wise, M.A.
Associate Director of the Southeast Asia Studies Program; Associate Practitioner-in-Residence

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Southeast Asia | Indonesia | Philippines

Issues
intelligence | international relations | strategic and security issues

Background and Education
Former deputy national security adviser to the vice president; was chief of Policy at the U.S. Pacific Command; served as deputy director for Policy Planning (East Asia and Pacific) in the office of the secretary of Defense; also held various positions in the U.S. intelligence community; retired U.S. Air Force colonel; adviser to the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, National Commission on Terrorism and Deutch Commission on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; president of The Sorrento Group, a defense and foreign affairs consulting firm; M.A., American studies, University of Hawaii

Publications
Indonesia's War on Terror (2005); various conference reports, articles and book chapters